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Transportation Funding Proposal Forces GOP To Face Its Tax Phobia
A plan unveiled today to keep the federal fund that pays for surface transportation projects from drying up within the next two months comes with some plain truth that Republicans keep trying to avoid.
How Inequality Shapes the American Family
A growing body of evidence suggests that inequality is changing not only American family structures, but the roles men and women play and the calculations they make in pairing and establishing households.
This Might Be The Biggest Reason To End The Tipped Minimum Wage
The restaurant industry is the single biggest source of sexual harassment claims. Placing women in the position of having to please customers and employers for tips is a big part of the problem.
A Family-Friendly Economy Begins With A Family-Friendly Workplace
While conservatives fret over breadwinner moms and caregiver dads, Democrats are working to create a more family-friendly economy, starting with a family-friendly workplace.
Progressive Breakfast
Fed Expected To Lower Expectations Fed criticized for prematurely reducing stimulus. NYT: "Federal Reserve officials, who have persistently overestimated the strength of the economic recovery, predicted last June that the economy in 2014 would finally grow more than 3...
Are President Obama's Manufacturing Efforts Working?
Tuesday President Obama talked about manufacturing at a TechShop in Pittsburgh. At the same time his administration announced a number of new manufacturing initiatives. How's he doing?
The Big(gest) Thing Missing From Secretary Lew's Big Economy Speech
The biggest fixable factor affecting jobs and the economy wasn't mentioned at all in Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's speech on the economy last week: the trade deficit.
Health Care: Let's Have People over Profits Once And For All
If we truly want to have a healthcare system that works for all, than we need to go back to the days when healthcare wasn’t a cash cow for Wall Street bankers. It’s time to put people over profits once and for all.
Americans Can Do Anything – Including Protect Their Democracy
Right-wingers on the Supreme Court gave a minority – the wealthy – legal sanction to buy the government. Now, democracy-loving Americans are demanding a constitutional amendment to return governing to the majority.
A New Spin from the Inequality Denialist Set
A key keeper of the market fundamentalist flame, the Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore, wants us to know that all his rich and powerful red-state pals really do care about income maldistribution.
